Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and two–fluid quasi-neutral equilibria with azimuthal symmetry, gravity and arbitrary ratios of (nonrelativistic) flow speed to acoustic and Alfvén speeds are investigated. In the two–fluid case, the mass ratio of the two species is arbitrary, and the analysis is therefore applicable to electron–positron plasmas. The methods of derivation can be extended in an obvious ...

The nonlinear coupling of MHD waves in a cold (β = 0) compressible plasma with a smoothly inhomogeneous low-speed steady flow directed along the magnetic field is considered. The effect is similar to Alfvèn wave phase mixing in a static, inhomogeneous medium and leads to the production of steep transversal gradients in the plasma parameters, which increases dissipation. Transversal gradients in...

A previous stability condition (see Throumoulopoulos and Tasso, Physics of Plasmas 14, 122104 (2007)) for incompressible plasmas with field aligned flows is extended to gravitating plasmas including selfgravitation. It turns out that the stability condition is affected by gravitation through the equilibrium values only.

We compare the statistical properties of J=1→0 CO spectra observed in the Perseus Molecular Cloud with synthetic J=1→0 CO spectra, computed solving the non–LTE radiative transfer problem for a model cloud obtained as solutions of the three dimensional magneto–hydrodynamic (MHD) equations. The model cloud is a randomly forced super–Alfvénic and highly super–sonic turbulent isothermal flow. The p...

In liquid metal blankets the interaction of the moving breeder with the intense magnetic field that confines the fusion plasma results in significant modifications of the velocity distribution and increased pressure drop compared to hydrodynamic flows. Those changes are due to the occurrence of electromagnetic forces that slow down the core flow and which are balanced by large driving pressure ...

It is shown numerically that both toroidal and poloidal rotational flows are intrinsic to a rigid toroid confining a conducting magnetofluid in which a current is driven by the application of externally-supported electric and magnetic fields. The computation involves no microscopic instabilities or kinetic theory and is purely magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) in nature. The properties and intensity of...

Magnetic dynamo experiments are being performed in many laboratories throughout the world. The most successful have been at Kalsruhe and Riga where liquid sodium has been forced in constrained flows and produced predicted postive dynamo gain. The unconstrained flows are being investigated at Wisconsin, Cadarache , and Maryland. These experiments have not reached the critical values of the magne...

We compare the statistical properties of J=1→0 CO spectra observed in the Perseus Molecular Cloud with synthetic J=1→0 CO spectra from a 5 pc model cloud. The synthetic spectra are computed solving the non–LTE radiative transfer problem for a model cloud obtained as solutions of the 3–D magneto–hydrodynamic (MHD) equations in both the highly supersonic and super–Alfvénic regimes of random flows...

The appearance of transport barriers in plasmas is usually taken to be the result of bifurcations in the transport equations, in which the possible control parameters is the radial electric field, in association with shear flow, which may contribute to the reduction or suppression of turbulent fluctuations. Yet, most calculations start from the assumption of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibira...

GTC gyrokinetic particle simulations of DIII-D discharge #142111 near 525ms find a radial localization of toroidal Alfven eigenmode (TAE) due to the modification of the MHD mode structure, i.e., nonperturbative contribution by energetic particles (EP). The EP-driven TAE has a radial mode width much smaller than that predicted by the MHD theory. The TAE radial position peaks at and moves with th...